RE: "Competition" is on the way - are you ready? ☺
Do not fear my friend, my money is on you. 😁
It is funny how many talk about competition, which, to me, is a reflection of the programming done to use by the banksters.
Is there really competition? You create your art based upon what moves you. We upvote you based upon how said work moves us. Is there really a competition?
If you like my article and another one, am I competing against that one? It is what we are conditioned to believe because we are taught that you might vote for that article and not mine. So what if you do? Or what if you vote for both? Or neither?
We see a shortage of people on here, relatively speaking. I get maybe 70-100 votes on my post, most from low SP people. That said, in a year, is it possible we each could be getting 1000 upvotes? Sure. We are the early adopters. People look to anyone with more SP than them with "envy". They want to attract the attention of that person.
I believe you see this mindset already. We can only imagine what will happen with 5M or 10M people on here.
I get the gist of your article but, ultimately, competition is a scarcity derived condition. When we are in the Age of Abundance, there is no competition because there is plenty....
Enough upvotes for everyone.
But my money is still on you.
I was thinking, if you saw the article, you might say this ☺
I don't think there's a competition so much, and I don't like to adapt to the scarcity mindset... on the other hand, there's a finite amount of SP and a finite amount of VP for voters to utilize each day. I used to be periodically upvoted by a mini-whale. And, another whale had me on his auto-voting curation for a few weeks. I never hear from these guys any more. One might say they've found someone more worthwhile, in their eyes, to show support to. My posts don't grab their attention anymore, and I believe I'm firmly off of their radar. In order for them to show me the support they did in late summer 2017, someone else would have to be voted a little less or not at all.
This isn't a complaint, I'm doing fairly well regardless. New supporters have stepped in. I've found supporters that are more enthusiastic about what I provide.
However, their support will fluctuate in the same way my support for others fluctuates. I think most users have someone they upvote daily/routinely, but that kind of loyalty seems rare to me.
I appreciate you saying that. Regardless of who does and doesn't support my posts, I'm hoping I can maintain and even grow a fanbase. And you're right about abundance, it just doesn't seem to be in full effect.
Imagine having 100,000 followers that each upvoted a penny's worth twice a week. That would keep the bills paid easily ☺
You sound logical and realistic about 100,000 followers. I think in a short while most of us getting nice upvotes to keep creator motivated to publish more worthy posts and survive through dry spells( similar thinks on youtube where algorythm recommending you video every 2 month).It is more and more feels like youtube competition for favor from AL/Whale :)